Overtake vs Colonise - What's the difference?
overtake | colonise |
To pass a more slowly moving object.
To catch up with, but not pass, a more slowly moving vehicle, animal etc.
(economics) To become greater than something else
To occur unexpectedly
To settle (somewhere) with (l).
To settle (a species, group of people, or the like) in a new place as a colony.
To begin a new colony.
As verbs the difference between overtake and colonise
is that overtake is to pass a more slowly moving object while colonise is .overtake
English
Verb
- "I overtook' and passed the doctor between Woking and Send." '''1898 ,
- "Our plans were overtaken by events."